On 03/14/2012 09:54 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > > 1. Psychologist O.K. Moore in the early 60s at Yale and elsewhere > pioneered the idea of a "talking typewriter" to help children learn how > to read via learning to write. This was first a grad student in a closet > with a microphone simulating a smart machine -- but later the Edison > division of McGraw-Hill made a technology that did some of these things.
Now that reference brings back some memories! As an undergrad I had a student job in the Computer Assisted Instruction lab. One day, a large pile of old parts arrived from somewhere, with no accompanying documentation, and I was told, "Put them together." It turned out to be two Edison talking typewriters. I got one fully functional; the other had a couple of minor parts missing. This was in late '77 or early '78, about the same time I was attempting (unsuccessfully) to learn something about Smalltalk. Regards, -Martin _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
